Paul and his agent turned it down. As they should have, for two good business reasons:

1) If he plays out this season, becomes a free agent and then re-signs with the Clippers he can get a five-year, $105 million contract. It is one of the quirks of the new CBA that it is in the financial interest of players to become free agents and re-sign with the same team rather than to just sign an extension with thier team.

2) This keeps the pressure on management to keep building a winner. The Clippers ended last year as a team on the rise, they reminded me of the Oklahoma City Thunder of a couple years ago — a team with a lot of talent learning how to win on the biggest stages. But they could slide back if owner Donald Sterling went cheap (bringing in Lamar Odom is a sign he is not). This is just smart by CP3, keep leverage over the team to keep building.

The real questions about what Chris Paul will do come a year from now. The Clippers are not going to move him at the deadline unless he asks out, and he’s not going to do that. CP3 will follow the Steve Nash model. But if he feels the Clippers are not committed, next July could be very interesting.

That $h*t sound stupid, and in the end a majority of the top tier players will do the same thing that Paul did.The man always thinking of new ways to try to limit a brothas dollars and establish his power.TRUTH

It is difficult for me to put in to words how stupid you sound when you make comments like that. The man is holding the “brothas” down by paying them 20 million dollars a year. As a white “honkey” I would love to be held down like that. Go play in traffic.

isujames says TRUTH as if he has reached a personal epiphany of an ultimate nature. Well, yeah, its true, but not new or exclusive to those of African decent. “The Man” has wealth and wants to keep and expand it if possible, duh. In order to do this they almost universally rely on top flight education, which isn’t very surprising, given the need to constantly “think of new ways” to limit others dollars. What does surprise me given the time since slaves were emancipated is that it’s taken so long for “brothas” to reach this epiphany, and seek to maximize the education made available by their athletic abilities.

don’t be. the lakers didn’t make a good enough offer at the time. hornets wanted young players and draft picks, things that they weren’t getting from the lakers/rockets deal. the league can’t let the lakers rip off teams all the time, can they?

Yep, re-read your post and you still seem like an idiot. What am I missing here exactly? Instead of a cryptic reply that requires me to go back and try to understand your garbled nonsense, why don’t you just explain to me what I’ve missed?

At any rate, with the new beef from the draft, I say the Lakers could still get to the West Finals next year with a better chance at getting it done. Fact is, everyone making those dollars has to do their job.

CP3 back to NOLA, to play with unibrow, running rivers, and Big Game Gordon. Young team, but, can u imagine that, with a free agent or 2 added on. Sounds like a future winner, won’t happen, but possibly can.